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https://github.com/KartoffelToby/better_thermostat

This custom component for Home Assistant will add crucial features to your climate-controlling TRV (Thermostatic Radiator Valves) to save you the work of creating automations to make it smart. It combines a room-temperature sensor, window/door sensors, weather forecasts, or an ambient temperature probe to decide when it should call for heat and automatically calibrate your TRVs to fix the imprecise measurements taken in the radiator's vicinity.
https://github.com/KartoffelToby/better_thermostat

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Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/KartoffelToby/better_thermostat
Owner: KartoffelToby
License: agpl-3.0
Created: 2021-10-30T16:21:04.000Z (over 3 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2024-07-23T08:24:43.000Z (7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-10-29T15:22:08.389Z (3 months ago)
Topics: climate, energy-efficiency, hacktoberfest, hacs, home-assistant, home-automation, homeassistant, moes, sea801, sea802, sensor, smarthome, spzb0001, thermostat, ts0601, tuya, zigbee, zigbee2mqtt
Language: Python
Homepage: https://better-thermostat.org
Size: 1.63 MB
Stars: 810
Watchers: 26
Forks: 124
Open Issues: 207
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE

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README

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# Better Thermostat

**For more info visit: https://better-thermostat.org/**

### Requirements

- Minimum required Home Assistant version: `2022.8.0`
(_Latest tested version: `2024.7.3`_)

### Companion UI

We've created a companion UI element which can display more information than the default thermostat element in Home Assistant. Check it out via HACS: [better-thermostat-ui-card](https://github.com/KartoffelToby/better-thermostat-ui-card)

- If you have a question or need help please create a new [discussion](https://github.com/KartoffelToby/better_thermostat/discussions) or check if your question is already answered
- If you have a suggestion, found a bug, or want to add a new device or function create a new [issue](https://github.com/KartoffelToby/better_thermostat/issues)
- If you want to contribute to this project create a new [pull request](https://github.com/KartoffelToby/better_thermostat/pulls)

### Features

This integration brings some smartness to your connected radiator thermostats setup:

- Uses a temperature sensor far away from the radiators to measure the real room temperature
- Makes your TRVs fully compatible with Google Home
- Let your windows disable your heating (avoid programming this via an automation)
- Your weather forecast provider will turn your heat on/off
- Or an outside air temperature sensor can do this as well
- Does some valve maintenance automatically, to avoid them getting stuck closed over the summer
- Group multiple TRVs to one (e.g. for a room with multiple radiators)
- Enhance the default TRV Algorithm with some smartness to reduce energy consumption

### Which hardware do we support?

**We support all thermostats which are compatible with Home Assistant as long as they are shown up as a climate entity**

***Integrations that are tested***
- Zigbee2Mqtt
- Deconz
- Tado
- generic_thermostat

### How to setup

Install this integration via HACS or copy the files from the [latest release](https://github.com/KartoffelToby/better_thermostat/releases/latest)

Configuration details can be found in the [documentation](docs/Configuration/configuration.md) or on our website: [better-thermostat.org](https://better-thermostat.org/configuration)

Some nice-to-know config tips for the configuration.yaml
#### Example Window/Door - Sensor config

```yaml
group:
livingroom_windows:
name: Livingroom Windows
icon: mdi:window-open-variant
all: false
entities:
- binary_sensor.openclose_1
- binary_sensor.openclose_2
- binary_sensor.openclose_3
```

#### Combine multiple TRV to one (Group)

No worry, Better Thermostat supports grouping out of the box

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# Contributing?

checkout the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) file

# ☕ Support

If you want to support this project, you can ☕ [**buy a coffee here**](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kartoffeltoby).